>Isn’t part of the accusation that he directly assisted in the actual extraction of the data by providing guidance? No. The accusation is that he offered to tr

>Isn’t part of the accusation that he directly assisted in the actual extraction of the data by providing guidance? No. The accusation is that he offered to try to crack a password to allow an alternative extraction method that would have possibly kept Manning's identity secret. Whether he actually tried to crack the password is unclear, but it's known that Manning did not use the method for any of the documents she extracted. They could still try and railroad him for agreeing to try and crack the password, but Assange did not assist in the actual extraction.